Trey Sermon breaks Eddie George’s single-game rushing record in Big Ten Championship Game

A 25-year-old record falls as Trey Sermon rewrites the record books.

We have a new single-game Ohio State rushing record holder, and he goes by the name Trey Sermon. The way that it happened was almost out of necessity, but sometimes that is the great mother of invention, as they say.

Ohio State found themselves in an absolute dog fight with the Northwestern Wildcats today in the Big Ten Championship game. With Justin Fields missing two of his top targets in Chris Olave and Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and somewhat off his game, it was Sermon who strapped the Buckeyes to his back and carried the team home.

Sermon played like a man possessed today and decided he was not going to let his team lose. Starting running back, Master Teague, left the game with an undisclosed injury which gave more touches to Sermon, and he did not waste the opportunity, leading the Buckeyes to a 22-10 victory over Northwestern.

Sermon would go on to break the Ohio State all-time single-game rushing record set by Eddie George in 1995 during his Heisman winning season. Sermon broke Eddie’s 25-year-old record by rushing for 331 yards on 29 carries. George set the mark to break against Illinois all those years ago at 314 yards.

 

Sermon also etched his name in the Big Ten record books by obliterating former Buckeye Ezekiel Elliott’s Big Ten Championship Game rushing record of 220 yards.

Now on to the post-season. It has to look good in the eyes of the playoff committee that Justin Fields can have an off day and the Buckeyes able to get big production from someone other than No. 1. What a perfect day for Sermon to write his name into the record books.

By the way, the 331 yards is also the most rushing yards by any player in any conference championship game across all FBS leagues in history. So yeah, that’s something to carry around with you. Being the Big Ten Championship Game MVP is another feather in the scarlet and gray cap.

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